LONDON, Ont. – A 66-year-old woman accused in the deaths of a young girl and a newborn after her car smashed into a Costco store in London, Ont., last summer has been found guilty of dangerous driving.
Ruth Burger had pleaded not guilty to two counts of criminal negligence causing death and two counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm in the case.
But a judge found her guilty of the lesser charges of dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
Burger’s car abruptly reversed into the store’s front doors, hitting a pregnant mother and her two young children last July.
Danah McKinnon-Bozek – who was eight months pregnant and underwent an emergency caesarean section – was seriously injured in the crash along with her three-year-old daughter.
McKinnon-Bozek’s six-year-old daughter died after being hit, and her newborn baby girl died in hospital a week later.
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